
„Give yourself over to absolute pleasure.“
A young, conservative couple gets engaged in a cemetery and embarks on a journey to see the teacher in whose class they once met. On the way, the lovers' car breaks down in the middle of the night.
In search of help, they enter the castle of a hedonistic party community and its leader, the eccentric scientist Dr. Frank N. Furter, who creates Rocky, the perfect human being. The two immerse themselves in an alien world full of lust, music, and sex – and return completely transformed.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show initially flopped at the box office in 1975, but then unexpectedly became a cult film. In the "midnight showings," queerness, B-horror effects, science fiction, extravagance, and glamour are unbridled – through the joyful participation of the audience and the performances of the legendary shadow cast of amateur actors.
Together with legendary Berlin drag queens Judy LaDivina and Bibingka, the RambaZamba Ensemble invites you to an evening that transforms this tradition into a new form: an inclusive drag night!
The art form of drag wildly plays with gender and explores the category of gender as a performative experience – in wild lip-sync performances to pop songs, intimate monologues, and direct encounters with the audience. Otherness is not hidden or condemned here, but grandly celebrated in an emancipatory act. Like The Rocky Horror Picture Show, drag creates spaces of liberation in which bodies, desires, and belonging are renegotiated.
The RambaZamba Ensemble opens its castle in the Kulturbrauerei as a refuge for all creatures of the night – those who fear for their sovereignty and integrity in times of social polarization – and invites you to eroticism, free love, and participation. Enter at your own risk!
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Participating artists
Beatrix Brandler (Kostüm)
Jacob Höhne (Regie & Bühne)
Sara Lu (Choreografie)
Joy von Wienskowski (Dramaturgie)
Kaan Aydemir
Friedrich-Ferdinand Dambeck
Eva Fuchs
Juliana Götze
Hans-Harald Janke
Tobias Kreßmann
Sascha Perthel
Zora Schemm
Rebecca Sickmüller
Jonas Sippel
Judy LaDivina
Bibingka *